_, Lyons, 1673, were the Most Holy Eucharist,
or Bourbon chapel, built in 1449 by Charles de Bourbon,
Primate of Gaul, and the Holy Sepulchre, or Good Friday
chapel, erected at the beginning of the fifteenth century by
Philip de Turey, Archbishop of Lyons. Unfortunately the
church of St. John was in 1652 devastated by the Huguenots,
who in their insensate fury destroyed almost all the tombs.
It is therefore now impossible to identify the chapel and
tomb to which the Queen of Navarre refers in the above
story, though her allusion to the dimness of the light would
incline us to place the incident she recounts in the
Chapelle du St. Sepulcre.--L. and Ed.

One day a soldier, walking in the church at the very height of summer,
felt inclined to sleep, and, looking at this dark, cool chapel, resolved
to go and guard the tomb in sleep like the rest; (2) and accordingly he
lay down beside them. Now it chanced that a very pious old woman came
in while his sleep was the soundest, and having performed her devotions,
holding a lighted taper in her hand, she sought to fix this taper to the
tomb. Finding that the sleeping man was nearest to her, she tried to set
it upon his forehead, thinking that it was of stone; but the wax would
not stick to such stone as this, whereupon the worthy dame, believing
that the reason of it was the coldness of the statue, applied the flame
to the sleeper's forehead, that she might the better fix the taper on
it. At this, however, the statue, which was not without feeling, began
to cry out.

2 Meaning the recumbent statues of the men-at-arms.--Ed.

The good woman was then in exceeding fear, and set herself to shout, "A
miracle! a miracle!" until all who were in the church ran, some to ring
the bells, and the rest to view the miracle. The good woman forthwith
took them to see the statue that had stirred, whereupon many found food
for laughter; though the greater number were unable to feel any content,
inasmuch as they had really determined to make profit out of the tomb,
and to gain as much money by it as by the crucifix on their pulpit,
which is said to have spoken. (3) But when the woman's folly became
known the farce came to an end. If all knew of their follies, they would
not be accounted holy nor their miracles true. And I would beg you,
ladies, to see henceforward to what saints you offer your candles. (4)

3 The crucifix in the